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Movie kinda sucked...

posted 12 years ago by AfroGeek
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But, Frank Langella was *awesome*. Guy has an amazing talent for making dialogue epic.

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[–] Cold_In_Space 12 years ago

Skeletor is an iconic film villain to me and all thanks to Frank Langella.

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[–] Lt_Brannigan 12 years ago

I actually thoroughly enjoy the movie. Of course I came at this as a Dolph Lundgren fan, for some reason He-Man completely escaped my childhood.

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[–] Kuato_and_George 11 years ago

I actually thoroughly enjoy the movie.

I agree. Is the premise and execution corny? Yep. Are the costumes kind of silly looking? Is going to Earth kind of lame? Yeah, but I love all of that. It just works. It's an idealistic movie for the kid in all of us.

Plus, Langella is just awesome. For a corny money about a man in his underwear fighting evil, he puts on a legitimate performance. Skeletor was a joke (but highly entertaining) in the cartoon. Langella made him scary.

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[–] CossetteMarie 11 years ago

I know I might sound like a prick, but this movie sucked big time...

[–] PreachCaleb 11 years ago

Well, as long as you're honest with yourself.

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[–] foxmulder1993 10 years ago

I remember before it came out someone had given me the movie poster and thought it looked kinda cool (I was 9) although I wondered why He Man's armor was black. When I saw the movie on VHS a few months later, I hated it. It was NOTHING like the cartoon. The robots were lame, Skeletor never had a clunky robot army, he had mercenaries with unique personalities like Beast Man, Trap Jaw and Tri-Clops. Skeletor was kinda cool I guess, but his eyes should'be been just black pits in his skull with no eyeballs. Langella was good. Dolph was fine. The teen subplot with the cosmic key mcguffin was blah. And the highly annoying side kick who didn't previously exist was just lame. I think I just expected the movie to be a live action version of the cartoon and was immensely disappointed. No Eternia. No Snake Mountain. No Battle Cat.